Description

Disabling Password Caching

When you perform a Subversion operation that requires you
to authenticate, by default Subversion caches your
authentication credentials on disk. This is done for
convenience, so that you don't have to continually re-enter
your password for future operations. If you're concerned
about caching your Subversion passwords,[3]
you can disable caching either permanently or on a
case-by-case basis.

To disable password caching for a particular one-time
command, pass the --no-auth-cache option on
the commandline. To permanently disable caching, you can add
the line store-passwords = no to your local
machine's Subversion configuration file. See the section called “Client Credentials Caching” for
details.

[3] Of
course, you're not terribly worried—first because you
know that you can't really delete
anything from Subversion and, secondly, because your
Subversion password isn't the same as any of the other three
million passwords you have, right? Right?